Celebrate OHMA's 5th Anniversary with champagne and cake and check out our students' work May 2 from 4:30-6!
Doug Boyd, Enhancing Access to Oral History, Feb, 14
Boyd will discuss new models for engaging and empowering users of oral history in a digital environment. Download Flyer
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OHMA Open House and Voice of Witness Book Talk, February 21
Gabriele Stabile and Juliet Linderman will discuss the newest title from Voice of Witness,Refugee Hotel, a collection of photography and oral histories that documents the experiences of refugees in the United States. Staff will also be on hand to talk with prospective students about the Oral History Master of Arts (OHMA) program at Columbia University. Download Flyer
Read MoreLillian Jiménez, Uncovering Hidden Histories: The Making of Antonia Pantoja: ¡Presente!, March 14
This workshop will discuss the context surrounding the creation of “Antonia Pantoja: ¡Presente!” a documentary on the work of Puerto Rican educator and visionary leader, Antonia Pantoja. Download Flyer
Read MoreSarah Mountz, Both Our Voices: A Feminist Relational Approach to Life History Narratives of Previously Juvenile Justice Involved LBGTQ Young Adults, April 11
This workshop explores the uniquely embodied and relational nature of storytelling and story receiving in Life History Interviews conducted with LGBTQ Young Adults who have previously been incarcerated in girls detention facilities in New York State.
Read MoreJennifer Scott, Movement Creates Museum: the Activist Beginnings of the Weeksville Heritage Center, April 25
Jennifer Scott will be discussing the role and possibilities of oral history for understanding activism and social change in the founding and expansion of a public history center.
Read MoreAlisa del Tufo, Surfacing Solutions: Using Oral History to Find New Solutions to Intimate Violence
In 1991 Del Tufo launched an oral history project with battered women who had children to develop a better understanding of the ways they felt help could be provided. The insights surfaced through these stories have influenced the development of programs, research, policy, movement building and advocacy. Her oral history work has also focused on the stories of men and youth; all with the goal of surfacing new ways to impact and change abusive behaviors. In this workshop she will share the history of this work and some of the sea changing ideas that have grown from it.
Read MoreArchived Past Events, Pre-Spring 2013
To browse our past events from before Spring, 2013, see here:
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